Perhaps More Than Any Other Disease Before Or Since, Syphilis In Early Modern Europe Provoked The Kind Of Widespread Moral Panic That AIDS Revived When It Struck America In The 1980s.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

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Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

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Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

Peter Lewis Allen

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Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

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